Mr John Dramani Mahama, presidential candidate, National Democratic Congress (NDC), says no beneficiary of the government’s COVID-19 stimulus package will not pay back should he win the December polls.
A statement issued by Mr James Agyenim-Boateng, Campaign Spokesman of the NDC, said Mr Mahama, in an engagement with the chiefs and people of Doryumu as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region, said: “They are giving money to traders and saying it is a loan to support your work, but if you vote for us and NPP stays, we won’t collect it. But if John Mahama comes, he will collect the money back; me too I won’t collect it. So, any money they give you, take it. It is free money; me too when I come, I won’t collect it,” he said.
Mr Mahama said it was the NDC government that established the Stabilsation Fund to cater for emergencies such as the COVID-19, and that the next government of the NDC would not chase any beneficiary trader for the money.
He asked the electorate to vote out the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December 7 General Elections and bring back the NDC to provide jobs, implement Free Primary Healthcare and create opportunities for all.
Mr John Dramani Mahama has, meanwhile, promised to upgrade the Tulaku Cattle Market in the Greater Accra Region into an ultra-modern livestock market. He said the upgraded facility would have an abattoir, cattle loading point, and a commercial area.
Mr Mahama made the promise when he engaged cattle dealers at New Tulaku, near Ashaiman, on Day Two of his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra Region.
The former President said his next government would ensure that the cattle dealers benefited from the $10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan, dubbed “The Big Push”. He said: “The Big Push” would create jobs and drive the entrepreneurial agenda for the country.
Mr Mahama, at mini rallies at Ningo, Prampram, Dawhenya, Kpone, Gbetsile, and Zenu, said the main priority of his next administration was youth empowerment through jobs creation, and appealed to the electorate to vote the NDC back to power to continue with its “unfinished” business.
He said his previous administration constructed the Ashaiman main highway and other roads in the Municipality, alleging that since he left office, nothing had been done by the current government on the road networks.
Mr Mahama said his next administration would fix the Ashaiman roads, adding that a Technical Training Centre would be set-up in Ashaiman to train the youth in entrepreneurship.
He asked beneficiaries of the government’s COVID-19 stimulus package to ignore claims that the next NDC government would require them to pay back the money, and urged them to vote for the NDC.
Source: GNA
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